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https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/refs/tags/86.0.4240.99:services/device/wake_lock/power_save_blocker/power_save_blocker_win.cc Guess this was not properly adapted for case of missing APIs on older OS. Calling JavaScript code is lied to that the request was fulfilled, but effectively does nothing.

Browser should prevent screensaver/sleep naturally when playing videos, seems that part is simply broken in 360Chrome. In JavaScript, WakeLock may be requested to block screensaver/sleep for other use cases. You can try this test: https://reillyeon.github.io/scraps/wakelock.html But it won't work if the browser is broken.

I do try to be open minded when it comes to country of origin when it comes to these things and while it doesn't seem that literally everything coming from "there" is a total piece of crap, I think that delegating EVERYTHING to China has gone too far. There was a bit of an educational piece on one of the news broadcasts recently about eye sight. Glasses are an easier and cheaper fix if you're scared to go under the laser to correct your eye sight. And guess what was said, the West develops them, China puts them together. So it's either a laser or the glasses that came from China. I've read few times when it comes to electronics that if strict controls aren't in place, they like taking shortcuts and using lower quality materials. Though this could happen anywhere.

I do think mental health is important topic that deserves more attention, especially in this age with the crazy pace and everything tightened up. I'm not active on any social other media, just made few posts recently on another technical forum. I don't really fit-in anywhere, my head is often empty and having no clue what to say. I was obsessed with Windows XP too at some point, when it was still current. A distant relative told me then I shouldn't obsess over an OS as much, better to focus more on other things you do on a computer. I think it was a good advice. Hm, what was I going to put in the 3rd paragraph? About pulling fuses out for side mirrors and power seats, what if there's a significant height difference between the customer and the person at the workshop? Power seats do have a manual way as backup, right? Interesting how some banal things can bothers us as much. This reminded me, I was at two different places in recent times for tire swap. They both put infotainment on the radio at the end, I had it on the car screen (where Settings->Tires->SET is accessible) with media mode active in the background so the Bluetooth connection to my phone works for playing music. They could just 🔙 to the Car screen. Guess it's so rooted in their routine they always put it on the radio at the end. For those that may not be aware, modern cars have TPMS (Tire-Pressure Monitoring System), indirect variants that a lot of cars have should be notified that the pressure is OK after swapping and/or inflating tires. Off-topic, sure, but seriously, this strict on-topic concept really doesn't flow well with how humans naturally converse and being anal about it might be worse for someone's mental health, depending on which end you are. I remember @NotHereToPlayGames also pointing it out at some point.

I wonder for how long that account functionality worked. After I don't remember how many years after XP was released, Windows Live programs (Messenger, Mail etc.) were released, which you could use in place of Windows Messenger, Outlook Express etc. It all seems so far away, I was in the elementary school when Windows XP was new and Windows 95 was still used at that place for few years at least after XP was released. I also remember finding an old article some time ago that I'm unable to find again, it said something along lines of Microsoft extending Windows 98 support for the sake of some poor countries, which included Slovenia of the time.

I recently dug out the old book about Windows XP, its original title goes like "Microsoft Windows XP step by step". The book also describes creating .NET Passport account. Does anyone remember those? I think I used it back then to be able to use Windows Messenger. How times have changed, today you have monstrosities like Skype and MS Teams. Regarding mail, I started with Hotmail back then, maybe that account also covered it. Then I remember there was MSN Explorer, but I didn't fully understand what it was all about. Has anyone used .NET Passport account back then and for what purposes?

You mean you used the report button on OP's post? Not that I know much other ways for them to check other than contacting one of the mods directly and report button on the post is probably meant for offensive/problematic posts, this post was just quoting the text from the article at https://msfn.org/windows-10-update-will-intentionally-break-some-bluetooth-connections/, though indeed it is the way to let everyone behind the scenes know. Maybe only @xper has access to those articles. Just wanted to say it sounds funny in the way, to report the messenger.

I guess it is, though I haven't tested Windows' W32Time service recently, but the Network Time Protocol Daemon (ntpd) known from Unix world. A Windows port is distributed by MEINBERG and is available for download at https://www.meinbergglobal.com/english/sw/ntp.htm. The hint why it helps partially at: How Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Handles Internal Time ntpd calls SetSystemTimeAdjustment during the normal operation with bTimeAdjustmentDisabled argument set to FALSE, which disables OS syncing hourly with RTC clock. If I understand the default config made by the installer, which is the combination of command line arguments and values inside configuration file ntp.conf, it makes the program sync quite frequently with NTP servers, minimum polling time being minimally 64 seconds and maximally 128 seconds and it's also checking if any network adapters have been added or disappeared at the interval of 3 seconds. Looking at the Windows' default time service code in OllyDbg, it looks like it does call the API function with the argument as described above at some point, so it's possible that it would help with time resetting hourly, but not after coming out of standby since apparently the kernel code that syncs time with CMOS clock only does it right at initial boot, but subsequent sync doesn't compensate it for selected time zone and DST (if in effect). It's also worth noting that due to incomplete/buggy implementation in the kernel, RealTimeIsUniversal=1 setting prevents the kernel from ever updating the RTC clock, so if the user or the service changes the clock, the change isn't reflected in RTC - reboot to BIOS settings where it can be seen the clock hasn't changed.

I just re-watched The Terminator recently. Seeing T1 and T2 in a cinema would be something, but I was born after, in the ruins. I mean after they were released, not after Judgement Day as it came in the movie. It's been years since the last time I was in the cinema, I'm certain I watched Terminator Salvation and Terminator Genisys. There were few others, but they slipped out of my memory. Edit: Right... Doesn't seem to be working! I made few posts in other topics, but I don't have much else to say.

I didn't actually trust it anymore ever since I noticed, but since it's still in the computer and have it backed up, no harm done playing with it.

In my case, it depends on the occasion/mood, not one versus another. With a phone, I'm not restricted to that one room to that one chair.

I do use it at work for running Skype (few co-workers use Firefox generally). And sometimes at home when I get tired of Pale Moon freezing occasionally.

Nein, das ist nicht gut. Now current pending sector count is over 1000. This drive is done for and the new bigger one costs about 50€ if I was in a hurry. smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-5.13.0-48-generic] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Western Digital Caviar Green Device Model: WDC WD5000AADS-00S9B0 Serial Number: WD-WCAV94916370 LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 102c17ef9 Firmware Version: 01.00A01 User Capacity: 500.107.862.016 bytes [500 GB] Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS (minor revision not indicated) SATA Version is: SATA 2.6, 3.0 Gb/s Local Time is: Sun May 14 08:37:22 2023 CEST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x84) Offline data collection activity was suspended by an interrupting command from host. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed without error or no self-test has ever been run. Total time to complete Offline data collection: (10980) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 129) minutes. Conveyance self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 5) minutes. SCT capabilities: (0x3037) SCT Status supported. SCT Feature Control supported. SCT Data Table supported. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 8607 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 185 183 021 Pre-fail Always - 3750 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 087 087 000 Old_age Always - 13323 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 047 047 000 Old_age Always - 39160 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 091 091 000 Old_age Always - 9458 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 193 193 000 Old_age Always - 5877 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 131 131 000 Old_age Always - 208324 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 116 101 000 Old_age Always - 27 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 184 184 000 Old_age Always - 1375 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 184 184 000 Old_age Offline - 1372 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 166 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 001 001 000 Old_age Offline - 39925 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 71 - SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. On an unrelated note, Linux is still not ready for the desktop. Dolphin didn't bother telling me it encountered read errors calculating file checksum. So much for German engineering. Or maybe there are under-the-hood limitations that don't necessarily originate from Germany.

Yikes, not good. I wonder how old is the incident.

I don't think USB issues are exclusive to MiniBrowser. It happened with 360Chrome 13.5.2022.0 today when I plugged a new old (known) USB device, my phone, nothing happened, no LED lighting up, no beep in Windows, nothing. Then I wanted to safely-eject already plugged-in flash drive and the window with the Stop button just froze after I clicked Stop. Then I closed 360Chrome and all started to work normally, phone was picked up by the OS and the flash drive was ejected. Worst, doesn't happen all the time, unknown how to reproduce. Obviously, the browser hijacks some important object and doesn't let it go. Didn't even visit any web site utilizing Web USB. The sloppy nature of these backports I guess.

Current Chromium source suggests SSE3 is detected by running CPUID instruction with EAX register set to 0x00000001 and inspecting if bit 0 of ECX register is set to 1, I also remember seeing trying to execute one of SSE3 instruction directly in one part of the code yesterday to verify availability, but would have to find it again. Reading /proc/cpuinfo would obviously not work on Windows. My Phenom II says SSE3 is supported, along with MONITOR instruction, an odd instruction that is rarely, if ever used. Though executing the latter throws illegal instruction exception. I doubt SSE3/no SSE3 has much impact on Speedometer 2.0, which I find to be a rather meaningless metric in the grand scheme of things. Also UXP browsers are much slower at it, SSE or no SSE. My smartphone with Chromium 113 engine scores about 8 points on it, doesn't make it useless for web browsing. VMware allows specifying returned feature flags when the guest uses CPUID instruction in a configuration file if I remember correctly, although I presume executing SSE3 instructions would work regardless on supported CPUs, so the program that wants them wouldn't use them only if it checks the feature flags and is programmed to not use them if feature flags say no SSE3. This is something I would have to test to be sure. There are some programs out there emulating very old CPUs, I only remember messing with PCem. In absence of owning real SSE3less CPU, emulating is probably the only way to have the "real" CPU without SSE3.

I don't think you can compare full-fledged Ubuntu releases which come with brand new bundled software releases, kernel and drivers supporting newer hardware etc. with Microsoft's service packs. XP from 2017 still can't do windowed Direct3D rendering with optimal performance across multiple screens, can it? Or run with CMOS clock in UTC? Vista had both by SP2, released in 2009.

Actually VARTA. I guess they make some batteries for automotive assembly plants to be fitted to newly manufactured cars. The picture above may eventually disappear, along with the source: https://www.ebay.com/itm/234924280418

Ozzy Osbourne - Hellraiser

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_nihilism

Well, the year is 2023 and Windows XP was released in 2001. Perhaps you are living in the wrong period? Though there is only one sure way through time and that is forward. Thinking back now, I think I exaggerated when I wrote that post here... ...the part about Mozart and DOOM. I guess generally more or less things from the person's own period is used. How much stuff from 1920 do you use? Additionally, and this is important, we're living in a time where these things develop rapidly, unlike when nothing changed in the person's entire lifetime. Anyway, is there a technical reason one should expect different results when Glarysoft's Quick Startup is running on XP that runs on bare hardware versus under a virtualizer?

Do XP users ever use Google Street View? It's a lag fest in UXP, 360Chrome, whatever.

Perhaps my words sound too frightening. Indeed they are. You just have to look past the meaningless distractions and see the meat grinder for what it is. https://teddit.net/r/MorbidReality/ Also, I'm sure @NotHereToPlayGames looks just fine the way he is and even if he does look to odd to someone, that's not a reason to attack him or anyone else for that matter. It just occured to me that I've heard several times now that also applies to country where I'm from that some people are afraid to go out in the night time while that wasn't the case 30+ years ago or so. Anyway, I'm tired and need the leave, which I'm taking very soon. School was much better in that regard, a week off every season and Christmas / new year period and 2 months off every summer. Now it's just work work work...what's the point? In any case, I remain a cynic.

In recent years, they write a new blog for a new release. https://developer.chrome.com/blog/ BTW, I made a jump from Chromium WebView 87 to 113 on my Android today. Whooping 26 versions difference, 20 MB bigger APK (65 MB -> 85 MB), only 4 MB left on the system partition, hanging at the bottom of the minimum system requirements list, 7 Android versions behind the latest already. Doesn't feel slower than the old one TBH, will see if the glitch with the blackness can still occur.

I don't know, it does exist on GitHub, but I'm not familiar with npm and whether compiling it would give an injectable version.